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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: modernist on January 16, 2013, 01:34 pm

Title: Display hedged/unhedged status of orders
Post by: modernist on January 16, 2013, 01:34 pm
It would be nice if buyers could know if an item for sale is hedged or unhedged before making the purchase.

As a buyer, I have been bitten by hedging several times already. It happens when you nominally get a 100% refund, but actually you don't. Nominally, I only lost the hedging fee (4%); most times, however, I have lost lots of bitcoins - as many as 35% when the time between payment and refund is long and the bitcoin currency gains value. The matter is, with my refund I cannot buy the same things I could when I spent them. This is because SR prices depend on several factors, and one of them ("SR inflation") is not tightly synced to the actual bitcoin value.

So please: tell us if the order is hedged or unhedged, so we can make a more informed decision/choice between alternative vendors.